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Date: 18 July 1976 / 18 July 1976 / 19 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | John Naber | USA | 55.49 |
| 2 | Peter Rocca | USA | 56.34 |
| 3 | Roland Matthes | GDR | 57.22 |
| 4 | Carlos Berrocal | PUR | 57.28 |
| 5 | Lutz Wanja | GDR | 57.49 |
| 6 | Bob Jackson | USA | 57.69 |
| 7 | Mark Kerry | AUS | 57.94 |
| 8 | Mark Tonelli | AUS | 58.42 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Glen Patching | AUS | 58.15 |
| 10 | Stephen Pickell | CAN | 58.21 |
| 11 | Romulo Arantes Jr. | BRA | 58.49 |
| 12 | Zoltan Verraszto | HUN | 58.63 |
| 13 | Igor Omelchenko | URS | 58.77 |
| 14 | Paul Jouanneau | BRA | 59.59 |
| 15 | Santiago Esteva | ESP | 59.71 |
| 16 | Ryszard Zugaj | POL | 59.90 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Krassimi Stoikov | BUL | 1:00.24 |
| 18 | James Carter | GBR | 1:00.39 |
| 19 | Miloslav Rolko | TCH | 1:00.41 |
| 20 | Reinhold Becker | FRG | 1:00.57 |
| 21 | Robert Rudolf | HUN | 1:00.58 |
| 22 | Gary Abraham | GBR | 1:00.61 |
| 23 | Steve Hardy | CAN | 1:00.69 |
| 24 | Nenad Milos | YUG | 1:00.70 |
| 25 | Robert Howard | IRL | 1:00.77 |
| 26 | Ignacio Alvarez | MEX | 1:00.80 |
| 27 | Jose Urueta | MEX | 1:00.85 |
| 28 | Tadashi Honda | JPN | 1:01.00 |
| 29 | Predrag Milos | YUG | 1:01.05 |
| 29 | Mikael Branden | SWE | 1:01.05 |
| 31 | Conrado Porta | ARG | 1:01.13 |
| 32 | Ramon Volcan | VEN | 1:01.20 |
| 33 | Enrico Bisso | ITA | 1:01.32 |
| 34 | Mike Scarth | CAN | 1:01.33 |
| 35 | Lionel Beylot-Bourcelot | FRA | 1:01.58 |
| 36 | Thomas Hofer | SUI | 1:01.90 |
| 37 | Gerardo Rosario | PHI | 1:02.08 |
| 38 | Ivan Mikolutskiy | URS | 1:03.86 |
| 39 | Antonio Botelho Melo | POR | 1:05.76 |
| 40 | Jin-Choon Chiang | MAS | 1:05.86 |
| 41 | Frank Richardson | NCA | 1:12.38 |
| Did not start | |||
| Hsu Tung-Hsiung | TPE | ||